Mix 4: At The End Of The Day

Inspired by Amon Tobin's track. I was on my way home from work in Belfast one early evening and I was listening to this particular song and I thought it captured the feeling of the cold city at twilight so well. It's when everything is winding down from a day and people are rushing home, on trains, cars or on foot. There is a real desire in the air, to get home, to get away from the madness, only to start it all again the very next day. I wanted a collection of songs that captured a similar feeling of busy cities. Sounds that echoed the skyscrapers and alleyways, people, vechiles and the city descending into darkness.

01...Clark - The Autumunal Crush
02...The Aloof - Stuck On The Shelf
03...Massive Attack - Man Next Door
04...Adam Beyer - Dissolve
05...Plaid - Zeal
06...Speedy J - Borax
07...Surgeon - Whose Bad Hands Are These? (DisinVectant Dislocated Finger Mix)
08...Meat Beat Manifesto - 1979
09...Orbital - Philosophy By Numbers
10...Mr. Sliff - Child's Play
11...Adam Beyer - Ignition Key
12...Amon Tobin - At The End Of The Day

Run Time: 1:03:34


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Epiphany

I am completing a mix inspired by this animated short from the Broken Saints series.

Mix 3: Our Future Sound

A perspective on how the current wrongs of the world have implications not only on the future generations but also on our journey to the afterlife.

01. Makaton feat. George W. Bush - Slush Fund
02. Ulterior - Weapons
03. Autechre - V-Proc
04. Milanese - Peggy Flynn III
05. ScanOne - Reckless
06. Meat Beat Manifesto - Cancer
07. DisinVectant - Concrete Ethereal Filter
08. Whitehouse - Killing Hurts Give You The Secrets
09. Innasekt - Archetype
10. Vex'd - Angels
11. Speedy J - Patterns (Remix)
12. Pelican - Angel Tears (Justin K Broadrick Remix)

Run Time: 70:58 mins

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Mix 2: It's War!

One of my first experiments with Ableton software.
Pounding Techno bombshells for your scarred mind...Shit, I'm still only in Saigon...


Tracklist:

Makaton – Last Wish Of A Dying Man
Exium – Dummies
Vandross – Hurt Me, I’m Waiting (Ian J. Richardson Remix)
Paul Bailey - Cosmic Dust
Thomas Rantanen – Bionic Paratroops
Ian Lehman - Cataphract
Gunjack – Outlands (A2)
Gunjack – Outlands (B1)
Oscar Mulero – Routine Operations
Christian Wunsch – Vengeance
Takaaki Itoh – We Are The Attack (Gunjack Remix)
Ben Sims – Encounter (Max Duley Remix)
Chris McCormack – The Sirens Of Atlantis

Run Time: 40 mins

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Mix 1: Father Is Dead

This is a dedication to my father who died in 2006.
BPM:140
Running Time:64:54 Minutes

Tracklist:

1. Ryuichi Sakamoto - End Of Europe
2. Steve Bicknell - Why & For Whom? (Surgeon Remix)
3. Regis & Female - Untergang
4. British Murder Boys - Father Loves Us
5. Swans - Time Is Money (Bastard)
6. Alexander Kowalski - Emtec (Deconstructed by the British Murder Boys)
7. British Murder Boys - Splinter
8. Makaton - The Eternal Host
9. Public Information Film - Here & Now
10. Veil - Blindfolded
11. Nine Inch nails - Reptile
12. Techno Animal - Blood Money
13. Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy
14. Archae & Grovskopa - Murdered Angel
15. Paul Bailey - Battery Girl
16. Exium - No Frontiers
17. DJ Boss - Kombacha
18. Damon Vallero - Trial By Fury
19. Vandross - Hurt Me, I'm Waiting (Female Remix)
20. Regis - White Stains
21. Makaton - Last Wish Of A Dying Man
22. Avro Part - Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten

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Civil Radio 18 begins...

This Blog will host a collection of Livefeeds and DJ Mixes, covering the darker side of music.
Techno=Dubstep=Hip-Hop=Industrial=Electronica=Ambient=

Let me begin with the influences or the reason I want to do this.


Art + Expression of the mind. Especially through music.
Music for me is the food and language for the soul. It should be appreciated and enjoyed by everyone.

‘Without Music Life Would Be A Mistake’ - Friedrich Nietzsche

My Father, (1960-2006)
When you grow up with a man who has this understanding and passion for music you cannot ignore it as a child. It also helps if it runs in the genes! I grew up on so much but most notably, Joy Division, Swans, The Young Gods, My Bloody Valentine, The Pixies, Shostakovich, PJ Harvey, PIL.

HR Giger,
The master painter of our future fears and nightmares. The darkside of where technology becomes part of humanity in twisted beautiful imagined figures and landscapes of the unconscious. The CHAOS of REALITY====Visual Techno.

Rodz Konez,
A UK record label ran by Steve Bailey (aka Makaton) Dedicated in producing stunning and innovative dark industrial techno music. They ran a series of Livefeed radio broadcasts featuring some of the best techno musicians to display their vast array of musical influences. This was extremely inspirational for me because I learned so much from them. It reminded me of listening to John Peel. The disturbing brutality of Whitehouse & Merzbow, the beauty and mystery of zoviet france played alongside pounding techno and reggae. The perfect kind of radio show.

British Murder Boys (aka Surgeon + Regis)
Anthony Child and Karl O’Connor have been pushing the boundaries of techno for years. They are pioneers of the sound.
When I first saw them perform live on laptops in a dingy club in Belfast that was a pinnacle moment for me because I also got to meet them afterwards. I told them about the influence of my father and it was because of this intensity that I listened to them today. I told them that I wanted my father to appreciate their music as much as I did. Their next record was titled ‘Father Loves Us’.